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| Titles
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Designing Analog and RF circuits for Ultra-low Supply Voltages (slides)
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| Speaker
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Dr. Peter Kinget
Columbia University, New York |
| Day and Time
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Thursday, January 17, 2008, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Refreshments will be provided
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| Location |
Room BA 1180
Bahen Centre
for Information Technology
University of Toronto - St. George Campus
40 St. George Street map - code BA |
| Organizer
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Solid-State Circuits Chapter |
| Contact
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Dustin Dunwell, E-mail:
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| Abstract
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Many trends in IC technology and its applications are driving the supply
voltage for integrated circuits down into the sub-1V region. Whereas
important advantages for ultra-low voltage digital circuits have been
demonstrated, the design of ultra-low voltage analog and RF integrated
circuits poses a lot of challenges and require the rethinking of many
basic analog circuit blocks. We will discuss these challenges and also
opportunities for designing analog and RF integrated circuits to operate
from ultra-low supply voltages down to 0.5V. Solutions ranging from
exploiting the 4-terminals of the MOS device or the threshold voltage
dependence on channel length, to the use of circuit topologies that
require only stacks of two devices are discussed. The realization of
full analog and RF system functions including 0.5V continuous-time
filters, 0.5V pipelined and continuous-time sigma-delta ADC and 0.5V
2.4GHz RF
receivers and synthesizers is demonstrated and the enabling architecture
modifications are introduced. The techniques and results developed in
this research aim to enable ultra-low voltage analog and RF circuits
both in the context of relatively large threshold voltages, e.g.,
|VT|=VDD, as well as lower threshold voltages. |
| Biography
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Peter R. Kinget received an engineering degree in electrical and mechanical engineering and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
He has worked in industrial research and development at Bell Laboratories, Broadcom, Celight and Multilink before joining the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, NY in 2002. His research interests are in analog and RF integrated circuits and signal processing using nanoscale CMOS technologies.
He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (2003-2007) and is currently serving on the Technical Program Committees of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference and the European Solid-State Circuits Conference.
http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~kinget |
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